An Indiana schoolteacher is in hot water for sending a letter home asking parents to tell their children not to talk about God, Jesus or the devil in her classroom. Her actions set off a discussion on free speech.
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The lawsuit details more than 30 specific incidents of allegedly unconstitutional use of religion in schools, including science teachers calling evolution a "fairy tale," teachers waving a Bible at students while criticizing a card game, and teachers punishing or criticizing students who refused to participate in classroom prayers.

The CNN report, with text and video news report, contains the first interviews with Christy and Kaylee Cole, who declined in December to speak to The Times.

The report includes photos provided by the Cole family showing a teacher's "daily objectives" on a wall. Among those objectives: "Pray daily!" "Love God!" "Study His Word."

Kaylee Cole says that the daily recitation of the Lord's Prayer ended after students returned earlier this month from their Christmas break. Before the break, students also recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

The pledge continues, she told CNN.

The school district acknowledged in a court filing in response to the Cole/ACLU lawsuit that the daily Lord's Prayer has ended.

Also interviewed are townspeople, including a father of two Webster Parish school children who says he thinks children should be permitted to pray in school.

"You have to realize that our tradition, our belief in God is so ingrained in us and so rooted in us that it's a part of everything that we do," Greg Lee, a banker, told CNN. "I would like for my kid to be able to have the right and retain the right to pray and to have prayer in school."